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Patch.com
April 24, 2018
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — The California Highway Patrol is investigating a school bus collision reported in unincorporated Santa Cruz County near Corralitos Monday morning, officials said. The crash, which brought down power lines after the bus sheared off a pole, was reported just before 8 a.m.Ãâà...
Patch.com
April 24, 2018
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Shelters in Santa Cruz County housed 550 individuals this winter season, but officials said demand for housing remained "extraordinarily high" despite increased shelter capacities. The county's five-month winter program ended on April 15 and saw 382 men, 141 women andÃâà...
KSBW The Central Coast
April 24, 2018
Sources told KSBW that Castaneda and the victim, 36-year-old Victor Vasquez Lopez of Santa Cruz, had both appeared in family court shortly before the shooting. Santa Cruz County's family courthouse is in Watsonville. The men drove away from the courthouse in separate vehicles. The victim was eitherÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 24, 2018
In Santa Cruz, a renters group is petitioning to get rent control, rent board and just cause eviction rules before city voters in November. Costa Hawkins limits the city's proposed rent control measure to an estimated 5,100 to 5,800 rentals out of 12,000 renter-occupied units. “The rents are so crazy. They'reÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 24, 2018
And perhaps most ominous, the odds are rising that a mega-storm — like the one that famously flooded California in 1862, forcing Leland Stanford to take a rowboat through the streets of Sacramento to his inauguration as governor — will strike again. Such a storm “is more likely than not” to hit the state atÃâà...
KSBW The Central Coast
April 22, 2018
Motorcyclist killed in Santa Cruz accident ... Santa Cruz, CALIF. —. CHP is responding to a fatal accident in Santa Cruz. A motorcyclist is dead after a head-on collision with a vehicle, according to CHP. Advertisement. The accident happened in the area of Empire Grade Road and Smith Grade Road.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 22, 2018
Cook is a member of Santa Cruz Together, a group formed to oppose a proposed ballot measure on rent control. (Shmuel .... This would affect someone who gets a job offer outside California who wants to rent out their home in Santa Cruz temporarily but doesn't know how long the new job will last. As theÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 5, 2018
Largest earthquake in several years shakes Southern California, causing landslides on Santa Cruz Island. By Joseph Serna and Rong-Gong Lin II. Apr 06, 2018 | 12:05 PM. SkipÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 2, 2018
But the couple knew competition for the house — like most houses in desirable California neighborhoods — would be cut-throat. ... It's the first project in Santa Cruz County financed under the EB-5 immigrant investor program, which gives 10,000 foreign nationals a year eligibility for permanent residencyÃâà...
Patch.com
April 2, 2018
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Santa Cruz firefighters rescued an injured man from Mitchell's Cove Beach this afternoon, fire officials reported. The fire department was dispatched for a cliff rescue at West Cliff Drive and David Way at 3:57 p.m. and found a man lying on the rocks. Firefighters initiated a ropeÃâà...
Patch.com
April 1, 2018
SANTA CRUZ, CA — A 26-year-old man was shot early this morning in Santa Cruz during a gang-motivated attack, police reported. Santa Cruz police responded to the 600 block of Riverside Avenue at 1:04 a.m. to reports of multiple gunshots. They arrived and found a 26-year-old man suffering from anÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 31, 2018
... Northern California hospital giant Sutter Health for allegedly driving up health care prices with anticompetitive practices, he announced Friday. Sutter, which includes Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley, Sutter Maternity & Surgery Center in Santa Cruz, and a host of other hospitals around the Bay Area,Ãâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 26, 2018
Assemblyman Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) has been named Legislator of the Year by the Chief Probation Officers of California for his 2017 session work. The organization cited his efforts to reform the juvenile competency system and his backing for reentry supports for people those returning to theÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 25, 2018
Santa Cruz Yes in My Back Yard YIMBY plans its inaugural public even, “Update on the State of Housing,” 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Dream Inn, 175 W. Cliff Drive. Keynote speaker is Linda Wheaton, assistant director for California Department of Housing and Community Development. There will be aÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 25, 2018
Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a Star Trek villain. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “thunderous applause.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants' rights groups working as political bedfellows. All inspiredÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 18, 2018
This undated photo provided by NOAA shows a humpback whale entangled in fishing line, ropes, buoys and anchors in the Pacific Ocean off Crescent City, Calif. Rescuers freed the badly tangled humpback whale Tuesday, July 18, 2017, after it had struggled for days against the weight of fishing lines,Ãâà...
OCRegister
March 18, 2018
In this photo taken Monday, April 7, 2014, an old felucca fishing boat sits by a boat lift on the Santa Cruz Wharf in Santa Cruz, Calif. ... Santa Cruz issued a bond to pay down its rising pension liabilities, set aside funds to cover increasing demands from the California Public Employees Retirement System,Ãâà...
Patch.com
March 14, 2018
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — One month after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School left 17 people dead, high school students in Santa Cruz will walk out of class as ... So far, students from the Pacific Collegiate School, a charter school in Santa Cruz, have registered for the event.
Patch.com
March 14, 2018
Home Depot; Terminix; The Salvation Army are all hiring. Even more jobs at the Patch jobs board, and post your own local job! By Autumn Johnson, Patch National Staff | Mar 13, 2018 9:05 am ET. 0. 12 New Jobs In Santa Cruz And Nearby. The job listings in this week's employment postings are chock-fullÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 13, 2018
SACRAMENTO >> As California lawmakers wrestle over how to spend — or save — an estimated $6.1 billion budget surplus, a bipartisan coalition of legislators is pushing to spend some of the money on the state's prized university systems, averting tuition increases. The proposal unveiled Monday wouldÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 12, 2018
SACRAMENTO >> As California lawmakers wrestle over how to spend — or save — an estimated $6.1 billion budget surplus, a bipartisan coalition of legislators is pushing to spend some of the money on the state's prized university systems, averting tuition increases. The proposal unveiled Monday wouldÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 12, 2018
California's water conservation habits, refined and improved over five years of drought, are quickly evaporating. ... 12.2 percent over the same period, San Jose Water Company customers cut 9.6 percent, East Bay Municipal Utility District customers cut by 5.3 percent, and Santa Cruz cut by 15.7 percent.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 3, 2018
Arguably the most radical in a series of legislative fixes for California's crippling housing crisis, Senate Bill 827 has the potential to reshape neighborhoods up and down the state, from Berkeley to Los Angeles, by overriding single-family zoning and superceding limits on new housing near publicÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
March 1, 2018
snowboarder Tyler Zamora of Santa Cruz said in celebration, glazed in white snow after a thrilling ride. After a near-record dry February, the powerful storm that barreled into the Golden State also delivered a soaking — and harried commutes — to the Bay Area, as San Francisco saw more precipitation inÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
SANTA CRUZ >> Hours up the California coast from where engineers designed the rocket that launched a car into space in February, another scrappy ... the Santa Cruz's Alternative Family Education home school program, beat out hundreds of teams from across the country to become one of six CaliforniaÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
SANTA CRUZ >> One of the season's biggest “atmospheric rivers” taking aim at much of California is expected to deliver 3 inches of rain in coastal Santa Cruz County and up to 6 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains through Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. The storm likely will be oneÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
OAKLAND >> Retail giant Costco and a Northern California coffee company will jointly pay $500,000 in civil penalties after a superior court judge's ruling settled a consumer protection action, the Alameda County District Attorney's office said Monday. JBR Inc. of Roseville, which does business as SanÃâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
BOULDER CREEK, CA — Two adult mountain lions were caught on camera wrestling on the back porch of Boulder Creek home this week. Resident Ben Slaughter woke up and discovered the feisty felines outside his bedroom window after hearing the big cats scuffling and playing with each other.
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
The Bay Area and California job markets boomed in January, a hiring surge that improved the statewide jobless rate to its lowest level on record, state labor officials reported Wednesday. Santa Cruz County had a stronger job market in 2017 than first calculated. And in January, Santa Cruz County addedÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History will feature “California Hydroscapes” as the focus of its Naturalist Night from 7-8:30 p.m. March 15 at the museum, 1305 E. Cliff Drive. California Environmental Protection Agency Geologist John Karachewski will discuss groundwater, water resources and otherÃâà...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Amid heightened attention to gun access since the high school shooting massacre in Florida, three California lawmakers announced a bill this week that ... Since then, Senators Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., introduced a bill that would raise the minimum age for buying military-styleÃâà...
Patch.com
December 31, 1999
Deputies said Kyle Franks was found to be in possession of heroin, drug paraphernalia, graffiti tools, a notebook with the moniker "Lerk" written on the cover, burglary tools and a bike believed to be stolen from Soquel High on Monday. Franks was arrested and booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail.
Silicon Valley Business Journal
December 31, 1999
The newest startup incubator in Silicon Valley has opened on the Silicon Valley campus of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in Santa Clara. SVLink is the third startup-focused program from the school in the past year, following two that were launched in Santa Cruz last year — Startup Sandbox onÃâà...
Government Technology
December 31, 1999
(TNS) — SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Santa Cruz property owners with separate water irrigation lines will be among the first to test a new city real-time metering program. In recent months, the utility has swept though its active irrigation customer accounts, ranging from Santa Cruz Memorial Park cemetery andÃâà...
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